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Liberti

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or LIBERTINL In Roman law. The condition of those who, having been slaves, had been made free.

1 Brown, Civ. Law, 99.

There is some distinction between these words. By libertua was understood the freedand he was called libertinvs when considered in relation to the state he occupied in society subsequent to his manumission, Lee. Dr. Civ. § 93.